renovating this beauty back to its glory

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”-Camille Pissaro

We have picked up this 1923 bungalow, that needs a ton of TLC. I hope to document our "before and afters" our expenses and what we learn along the way. We welcome all tips and design suggestions. Please feel free to add your comments.

Demo in the basement – small room, dog room

The basement is scary. I have seen worse, but this is pretty raw I’d say.

The goal here is to take everything out, and basically paint it white, and design a dog room, and a workout area, and a gaming area/movie watching area. I have developed a bad habit of not taking before photos. I did it again today.

Here is the demo, the maybe dog room.

I needed a saw for these shelves. So I’ll have to tackle this later – maybe tomorrow.

I thought the wood behind the cabinets was kind of pretty. Only one wall is like this so we’ll see.

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5 thoughts on “Demo in the basement – small room, dog room”

I was so excited to see your recent posts and know that you’re kickin’ “you know what” already! I bet your adrenaline is pumping at this point. You’ve already done so much. That water line repair was quite impressive… blow torch and all. YOU GO GIRL! The front beds already look better. And one more thing…. A little “welcome to your house poop” is a sign of good things to come. HA HA! It can only get better from here. Congrats!

I do that too—forget to take photos. The day we moved in to our house, my husband ripped into about 12 different things, and I have no original “before” of about half the rooms. I was too busy being overwhelmed to think about finding the camera.

The toilet? HORRIFYING. Speechless rage would have summed up my reaction.